Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire
- Starts: 12:00 pm on Monday, March 2, 2026
- Ends: 1:30 pm on Monday, March 2, 2026
Join us Monday, March 2, for a lecture by 2024-25 CURA Fellow Candace Lukasik. The subject of conversation with be Lukasik’s new book, Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire (NYU Press, 2025), examining how American theopolitical imaginaries of global Christian persecution have remapped Coptic collective memory of martyrdom in migration.
Candace Lukasik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Mississippi State University. A anthropologist of religion, her research focusses on the transnational politics of violence, migration, race, and indigeneity in the Middle East, specifically Egypt and Iraq, and its US diasporas.
- Speaker(s)
- Candace Lukasik
- Event Open To
- public
- Building
- Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room)
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- Eilts Room
- Show Fees
- free
- Registration Deadline
- 3/2/2026
- Link:
- https://www.bu.edu/cura/2025/12/13/martyrs-and-migrants-coptic-christians-and-the-persecution-politics-of-us-empire/
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- Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs: CURA
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- https://www.bu.edu/cura/2025/12/13/martyrs-and-migrants-coptic-christians-and-the-persecution-politics-of-us-empire/
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- cura@bu.edu
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